A giant title two weeks that I apparently missed and wanted to atone for, which makes it all of the extra disappointing that the majority of them ended up on this publish.
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NCT Want – “Poppop”
That decision-and-response kind part with the shouting and the higher-pitched background vocals jutting out randomly was irritating and the repetition of “pop” wasn’t nice. There are extra nice sections however when the core of it mainly makes me wanna skip, it’s arduous to get previous.
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KWON EUNBI – “Hiya Stranger”
Wants to return to relying extra on manufacturing and her charisma to hold songs like she has with a few of her greatest, because the vocals are too skinny on this to outlive, particularly with out a high quality hook.
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Apink – “Faucet Clap”
Principally placing it right here as a result of their who-gives-a-shit sort of anniversary video nonetheless has higher hooks and melodies than like most of Ok-pop this yr — and captures the sort of precise earnestness they’re all making an attempt to emulate — which may be very humorous to me.
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TWS – “Countdown”
The refrain sorta felt prefer it tried to make use of the identical gimmick as their “Plot Twist” breakout — a tune I wasn’t enamored with as it’s — and the tune generally felt like a lesser model of that but once more. Specifically the transitions to and the rap verses themselves took me out of the immersion.
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KAI (EXO) – “Wait On Me”
Really, a surprisingly strong facsimile of an Afrobeats tune, although it’s carried by the beat/style for essentially the most half. It’s surprisingly nameless apart from the unlucky “rap” sections, although the principle drawback is the melodies/hooks weren’t actually efficient, which is sort of a requirement to make these songs standout.
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OSDS – “Bluetooth”
I don’t know why however this group has Dal Shabet‘s Subin and my favourite quasi-edgy-in-a-she-might-kill-me-in-my-sleep-type-of-way-but-still-conventionally-attractive mannequin/streamer Go Mal Sook in it.
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YOUNITE – “Rock Regular”
That is virtually too retro within the sense that each era of Ok-pop boy group has utilized this sound extensively so we hear it a bunch each gen, and whereas this can be a strong extension of that, I’m undecided it’s far more.
I give it further factors for the title reminding me of this tune:
What a fuckin’ banger.
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MEOVV – “HANDS UP”
Man, the pre-debut hype round this group was loopy. Zero concept what they’re doing musically.
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HITGS – “SOURPATCH”
I do know it’s trendy for folks to disclaim it trigger they hate Min Hee Jin, however the quantity of NewJeans soundalikes within the aftermath of their success has been really deranged, which makes her schizo paranoia in the direction of one group much more loopy. Extra importantly than her, their producers and topline songwriters have been normally elite, which is why many of the imitations simply don’t have the juice. Anyway, this can be a strong try at it contemplating I’ve by no means heard of this group earlier than. It’s a bit overeager in manufacturing and the primary time you hear the hook is the most effective because it will get repetitive partially resulting from stated busy manufacturing selections, however a lot greater teams have performed a lot worse.
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HIGHLIGHT – “Chains”
Comfortable they acquired their title again, now they should make B2ST music once more.
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FIFTY FIFTY – “Pookie”
“Pookie” is an odd phrase to decide on for FIFTY FIFTY to proceed to do what like 80% of the trade’s lady teams have tried in becoming a member of the chase for the following “Cupid”, although their state of affairs is exclusive as they’re sorta chasing their very own tail. All of pop music is a moderately cynical pursuit of economic success, however a few of it’s so blatant that it’s arduous to not take into consideration whereas listening to the tune.
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RIIZE – “Bag Dangerous Again”
Nicely they’ll return to the melodic stuff sooner or later I assume, so no matter.
BAG BAG BAG BAG BAG
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— malewife (@firstmalewife) Could 1, 2025
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There was another stuff launched within the final two weeks that I’ll most likely be overlaying later, however not as a lot as I assumed there could be.
